Lewis Pullman Is Looking for a ‘Dark Comedy’ After Sci-Fi ‘Press Play’ and ‘Top Gun: Maverick’: ‘I Need a Little Levity in My Life’
usmagazine.comLewis Pullman isn’t stopping any time soon. The actor — who can currently be seen in the blockbuster smash Top Gun: Maverick as Lt.
Robert “Bob” Floyd and Amazon Prime Video’s Outer Range — stars in the new time traveling romance Press Play.Famous Celebrity FamiliesThe sci-fi centers on Laura (Clara Rugaard), who realizes she can travel back in time to save her partner Harrison (Pullman), from a deadly accident by listening to the mixtape they created together.“I think upon the first read it really kind of felt like it was gonna be a challenge to track where these characters were emotionally at within each scene,” Pullman, 29, exclusively told Us Weekly of the script. “And as the story went along, I think that the arc is like a weird roller-coaster and I think that trying to play somebody who’s trying to grapple with an idea as fantastical as time travel and to try and really play somebody who’s grappling with believing that it’s possible seemed like a fun challenge to me.”The actor was eager to work with his impressive costar too. “I had watched I Am Mother and saw Clara in that.
And she did so exceptionally at playing a character that has such a clear-cut idea of what their existence is, and then being introduced with this bomb of a life changing piece of information, and then watching her deal with that and absorb that and how she tackles that.
She’s a master at that,” he explained. “And so I was like, ‘She’s gonna be even better in this.’ And so I really wanted to kind of learn from her and see how she did that.
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